Andrea Ho

09/01/2024

Happy new year friends! I'm doing some popup radio programs on ABC in NSW and ACT this week and next. You can listen in via the radio or Channel 25 on your TV, or via the ABC Listen app anywhere in Australia.

For the latest local news, features, programs, audio, podcasts, sport, events, photos and videos with ABC Sydney.

22/11/2023

Radio fans, let’s celebrate 100 years of radio in Australia today. Activities all day at the State Library of NSW - visit or listen anywhere in the world via the stream.

- An event at the State Library of New South Wales

23/09/2023

2023 : it’s a wrap! Fantastic days in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. I learned heaps as a garden variety reporter-broadcaster, including trends and techniques to incorporate at Australian Film Television and Radio School. Glad to contribute a small part to the whole event. Kudos to organisers GIJN - Global Investigative Journalism Network and partners.

15/09/2023

Congratulations to all the finalists for the 2023ABU Prizes. There is some amazing work being made across Asia, the Pacific, and Australaisia. Have a listen! Glad to serve as a category judge this year.
ABU Radio Group

The ABU Programme Department provides a wide range of services from programme exchange to co-production, festivals and industry conferences for TV, Radio and New Media producers and creators. Various in-country capacity building workshops are organized throughout the year. ABU Prizes, which promotes...

06/09/2023

Radio Days Asia: it’s a wrap! A fantastic second day to cap off the conference. Met and heard terrific radio and podcast makers from Asia and around the world. An all-round, excellent professional development and networking event. Big ups to Anders Held, Barry Keohane, and all the RDA team for a job well done. 💐💐

03/09/2023

RadioDays Asia, here we go!
In transit at Changi Airport, Singapore.
Are you going? Why not make a snap decision to join us? See you there!

Radiodays Asia is the international meeting point for the radio, audio and podcast industry in the Asia-Pacific. Its purpose is sharing experiences and learning about international media trends, new technology, content development and business opportunities.

20/07/2023

Happy day! The radiotoday.com.au Podcast Awards winners are out, congratulations to all. Personal bouquets to CRAZE from Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Radio & Podcasting class of 2022 💐 and to Journo from Deadset Studios and JNI 💐
This is the 4th Award for Journo seasons 1 & 2! If you’re keen to back a winner, Journo is looking for your support - DM Deadset for more.

Here are the winners in the Radio Today Best Podcast Categories as chosen by our panel of judges. Scroll down to see the overall winners of the coveted

26/05/2023

Some days the news is good. So it was for me when I learned late this afternoon that our podcast has won its second New York Festivals Radio Award, this time a silver! Do consider checking out season 2, it’s a cracker.

“Thrilled to see our podcast Journo win an award from the New York Radio Festival in the coveted news podcast section. My thanks, as ever, to the awesome team at and the wonderful ”

22/05/2023

Here is Stan Grant’s statement as he finished Q&A, before he steps away from media ‘for a while’. Let’s hope it’s not too long. Let’s hope media hears his call and makes the changes so badly needed for so long.

Stan Grant makes an emotional statement at the end of Q+A, announcing he will be stepping away from media commitments following racist abuse, but confirming that he will be back stronger after a break.

20/05/2023

This has been on my mind since Friday: journalist Stan Grant is stepping away from his profession amid disproportionate, industrial-scale public abuse for giving a valid point of view arising from his Aboriginality, when asked to do so. The hypocrisy of some media demanding ‘more points of view’ from others, then castigating them when differing views are aired; the hypocrisy of media which say they support diversity while hanging their most prominent colleagues out to dry. The low-dog bullying by every ‘ordinary citizen’ who has gleefully joined the public pile-on, often under cowardly anonymous profiles.
Stan says “Racism is violence” and I agree. No wonder he has had enough. What kind of a society are we.

Although I try to shield myself from the racist abuse I'm frequently subjected to, the fact it is out there poisons the air I breathe. Now I have had enough – so on Monday night I will present Q+A, then walk away. For how long? I don't know, writes Stan Grant.

09/04/2023

When I joined AFTRS I expected lots of things... but a 12-day OB from the Royal Easter Show with students who've studied radio for just 5 weeks wasn't one of them 😱 Pleased to say they are smashing it! They're scaling that steep learning curve with heart and passion. Love'em. You can tune in for yourself via the iHeart Radio app from 10am-4pm, or follow them on FB. Check out their work here:

This site is the work of AFTRS Graduate Diploma Radio & Podcasting Students

24/01/2023

A new year, a new opportunity. Having had a lot of interaction with AFTRS over many years in broadcasting, it's excellent to finally join this vibrant team at a time of great change, in their 50th year. To find out more, get in touch. Viva la revolution!
"In 1973, Barry Jones’ opening remarks as the founding Chairman of AFTRS Council declared, ‘The School must act as a revolutionary force”. He went on to say... “There can be no half-measures. We must create one of the world’s great schools or we must abandon the project at once. We cannot be a hothouse for mediocrity.”

The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) has announced the appointment of seven senior staff who will take up...

03/11/2022

Brooke Boney, with a crucial question for all of us: “[W]hen a grown man can allegedly beat a black child to death and the response from law enforcers is that this child was in the “wrong place, wrong time”, while he was WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL WITH HIS FRIENDS, then where is the right place? When is the right time?”

There’s nothing that can come from the death of Cassius Turvey that feels like justice. There’s no relief or lesson that can be taught after something so horrific.

14/07/2022

The “random acts of kindness” posts that hit you in the feels so you share with family and friends to make their day? Please, don’t share them. They’re likely unethical: filmed and published without consent, raising profile (=making $) for someone else. As this story shows, they’re also judgy and reinforce incorrect stereotypes about who is to be pitied and who is the ‘saviour’.

A Melbourne woman says she feels "dehumanised" after she was filmed without her consent for a TikTok video that has now been viewed more than 57 million times.

29/10/2021

How beautiful are these? Retro radio love from the National Museum of Australia.

10/09/2021

Melbourne peeps, can you help? I'm looking for the best community reps who *should* be speaking in the media but aren't, to join JNI's Community Voices program in Melbourne in 2022. Please share. And, ask someone you know to apply over the weekend. Applications close next week. Thank you.
https://jninstitute.org/.../community-voices-is-coming.../

Community Voices, an initiative giving people from diverse backgrounds a greater voice, is now open to applicants from Melbourne for 2022.

08/09/2021

Friends, a recommended new listen: 'Journo'. It's a podcast for anyone in news and media, anyone who consumes news and media - if you're reading this, then you need to hear this podcast. Most of all, it's a cracking listen, a cinema experience for your ears.

It's officially launched tomorrow but up in all good podcast players now. If you like it, please 'follow' it. 8 episodes this season, released fortnightly, taking you up to Christmas.

I'm very excited, as it's been a large part of my working life for the past few months. Hope you enjoy it.
https://castbox.fm/channel/Journo-id4541116?country=au

Journo unpacks the news, so you understand how it's made, disseminated and consumed. Ride shotgun with the world's best journalists as they explore the ...

16/07/2021

Dear Friends, a short Friday read with some bonus 'celebrity' pics. Judith Neilson Institute's Community Voices participants have had a busy six months, and are smashing our expectations by already getting out into media. Despite lockdown in Sydney we're forging ahead, with our next training session moved online.
Inside tip: there may be news coming about Community Voices 2022. Watch this space (and follow Judith Neilson Institute on LinkedIn or Twitter).

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/community-voices-hit-ground-running-andrea-ho

Published: July 16, 2021. Each month I spend an extra Wednesday night at work, gladly hanging out with an excellent, interesting group of people: JNI’s Community Voices crew. In an industry where long and weird hours are normal it hardly counts as an imposition, but in this situation both the comp...

11/06/2021

For every news consumer, an important short read about the manipulation media are sometimes forced to manage. It’s why you need to do your bit by being an active, thoughtful news consumer.

https://theconversation.com/liberals-dan-andrews-questions-are-a-perfect-case-study-in-how-to-manufacture-fake-news-162511?fbclid=IwAR04UfIHPJIDiKQwR4FveoYU-Vh6BcfsnEOUUx4QbtLXVFxWSQgEu65dLoA

It is difficult for the media to deal in fake news – but the Andrews conspiracy story has been handled very well.

31/05/2021

Dear friends: three cheers for Cecelia Latimer, Kellie Riordan, Lisa Main ✏️, Susan Hill, Warwick Tiernan, Beronica Rainbird, Catherine Hurley, Donna Bush, anonymous, anonymous Margaret, anonymous, and anonymous Ross for coming on board to support Project Independence! Today my boots hit the ground in the NT. I’m thinking of each of you, who’ve generously donated to the project, or given kind words of support. 🙏

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